tests/chgrp/deref.sh

#!/bin/sh
# see if chgrp can change the group of a symlink

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. "${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ./src
print_ver_ chgrp
require_membership_in_two_groups_

set _ $groups; shift
g1=$1
g2=$2

touch f
ln -s f symlink

chgrp -h $g2 symlink 2> /dev/null
set _ $(ls -ln symlink)
g=$5
test "$g" = $g2 ||
  skip_ "your system doesn't support changing the owner or group" \
      "of a symbolic link."


chgrp $g1 f
set _ $(ls -ln f); g=$5; test "$g" = $g1 || fail=1

chgrp -h $g2 symlink || fail=1
set _ $(ls -ln f); g=$5; test "$g" = $g1 || fail=1
set _ $(ls -ln symlink); g=$5; test "$g" = $g2 || fail=1

# This should not change the group of f.
chgrp -h $g2 symlink || fail=1
set _ $(ls -ln f); g=$5; test "$g" = $g1 || fail=1
set _ $(ls -ln symlink); g=$5; test "$g" = $g2 || fail=1

chgrp $g2 f
set _ $(ls -ln f); g=$5; test "$g" = $g2 || fail=1

# This *should* change the group of f.
# Though note that the diagnostic you'd get with -c is misleading in that
# it says the 'group of 'symlink'' has been changed.
chgrp --dereference $g1 symlink
set _ $(ls -ln f); g=$5; test "$g" = $g1 || fail=1
set _ $(ls -ln symlink); g=$5; test "$g" = $g2 || fail=1

Exit $fail